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reverse geocoding not working
by Joey Stanford 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hi, We have our SNMP location strings set in all but a few cases to “NAME [xx.xxxxxx,-yy.yyyyyyy]” and as you can see from the screenshot that works for over a hundred hosts. For some reason though, not all of them are being interpreted properly. Any idea how to troubleshoot (or fix) this? We’re not overriding anything in config.php.

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Add Lxd edfa/emtx devices patch
by Reto Zingg 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi, In a network we monitor there are Langxunda (Lxd) Externally Modulated Optic Transmitters and Erbium Dotted Fibre Amplifiers. E.g: http://www.langxunda.com/en/goods/1167.html The current OS detection for the NSCRTV-ROOT mib does not work on them. So I added rules for them in os.inc.php. The limits which are set for the sensors in nscrtv-root.inc.php do not work for us. So I added some checks to not set a limit. Additionally I added some more sensors. We do not own the copyright of the Lxd logo, I don't know what your policy is, wrt the use of logos. I got it from the web page and cropped it to look nicer. It would be nice if the attached patch and logo could be added. If there are changes needed, please let me know (style, naming convention, etc). Thanks and best regards Reto

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is there any solution to linux not having persistent port ifIndexes ?
by Edvinas K 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hello, Since we'all know that Linux is not having persistent port if Indexes, is there any quick-fix workaround to make the ifindexes stay after server reboot ? Observium wise or Linux wise ? Thanks

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Assign specific dashboard to user
by Fiberwide Sysadmins 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Hi All, i'm trying to setup a configuration to give access to traffics data to our customers, but I've encounter some problems on the dashboard. Now You can define more dashboards but I can find a way to define a dashboard for our NOC and a dashboard for the customers... The default is applied to all users, but i set this with backbone graphs, so in the case of customer with only USER privilege log in all the graph are showed as "Permission error", that's because are related to device or ports not assigned to that specific customer. So my idea was to create a dashboard only with "Status summary" and "Event Log", those to widget show only the info related to the customer. Other minor question, can You tell Me a way to change the name of the dashboard? Distinti saluti --- Davide Lima Daum - System & Network Engineer Fibering S.p.a. - www.fiberwide.com T: +39.02.00632100 F: +39.02.00632199 e: sysadmin(a)fiberwide.com

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Changelog
by Benjamin Moore 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Is there somewhere I can see the changelog for the rolling version of Observium?

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Having issues with the email alerting..
by Ryan Huff 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Having issues getting the alert to mail. I am not using SMTP, I have sendmail installed locally to the OS. If I use the PHP mail(); function in a test script and execute it in the broswer, it sends mail just fine. Here is the email params in my 'config.php' file: $config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email']['backend'] = 'mail'; $config['email']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $config['alerts']['interval'] = 40000; $config['email']['default'] = "me(a)company.com"; $config['email']['from'] = "Observium <observium(a)company.com>"; $config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE; Any thoughts mates? Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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mcrypt deprecated
by Lane Russell 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

It appears that the install instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 still require that mcrypt be enabled. However, mcrypt was deprecated in PHP 7.1 and fully removed in PHP 7.2, which is used in Ubuntu 18.04. In addition to updating the install documentation, what is the timeline for replacing mcrypt in Observium? What are the correct steps for installing Observium on Ubuntu 18.04? Regards, Lane Russell Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Dealing with Alert Storms
by Joey Stanford 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi All, I’m looking for advice on how to deal with alert storms. For example, we lost a UPS last night at a critical hub which cause Observium not to be able to reach most of our networks (and of course, all the alternative OSPF routes were powered via that UPS). Consequently we had several hundred alerts sent out via email and telegram. Is there any interesting way to deal with this that anyone can recommend? Thanks, Joey

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Printing reports
by Ryan Huff 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Using latest CE.. Just making sure I haven’t missed something in the docs and config guides.. I do not see a way to print any type of reports/PDFs.. but I do see a ../html/pdf.php which looks like it would do that. Did I miss a page in the docs? -Ryan

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Map Location
by Ryan Huff 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

It seems that no matter what addressing schema I've tried to set with config['location_map']['nice_name'] ['real_address'], it continues to populate the front page map with the proper location names, but all located in Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel. The USA addressing formats I've tried are: street address, city, state, country and street address, city, state (Ex: 180 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) Is there an additional override I am missing, or a way to verify the location value I'm typing is understandable to the correct geopositioning on the map? Thanks, Ryan Huff, CCDP, CCNP Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional

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